[linux-lvm] where do i find the device mapper/LVM2 documentation?

Joe Thornber thornber at sistina.com
Fri May 30 12:24:03 UTC 2003


On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 01:22:32PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
>  >>  On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:21:27PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
>  >>  > On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 02:27:15PM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>  >>  > 
>  >>  > If you're interested in writing your own targets I suggest you look at
>  >>  > a couple of the trivial targets that already exist.  Such as
>  >>  > dm-linear.c, dm-stripe.c.
> 
>  >>  i am planning to write my own targets as a graduate project.
>  >>  My idea was encryption and possibly compression as well.
>  >>  (is anyone else doing any of these targets?)
> 
> An encrypting target would be nice, but does it offer any value over an encrypting loopback device?

I still don't trust the loop device enough to use it.

- Joe




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